Our School Council 2023-2024

We are delighted to be part of #SmithdownLitFest with author @SusanBrownrigg…

We are delighted to be part of #SmithdownLitFest with author @SusanBrownrigg sharing her new book Kintana and the Captain’s Curse. Ooo arrr me hearties.🏴‍☠️

We had such a lovely time at our #MacMillanCoffeeMorning

We had such a lovely time at our #MacMillanCoffeeMorning. Thanks to our families for their company and generous donations @macmillancancer

Well done to this week’s award winners…

Well done to this week’s award winners. We are all so proud of you. Keep working hard 🌟

Award winners this week🌟

Well done to our amazing award winners. Keep shining 🌟

Our award winners this week!

Our award winners this week! Well done everyone we are very proud of you all 🌟

Remembrance Day

Each class made a poppy to add to our outside Remembrance Day display.

Bonfire Fun

EYFS enjoyed using the sticks and leaves to make a fire. They enjoyed marshmallows and hot chocolate too!

St Clare’s Lightning ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Year 5 and 6 really enjoyed taking part in the first game of the Toxteth Cricket League and came away with a good win.

Peer Massage and Mindfulness with Jessie from Mind Happy

To launch Children’s Mental Health Week, Jessie from Mind Happy delivered a day of peer massage and mindfulness with each class. This gave us all some really useful strategies to look after our mental health every day, both at school and at home.

Mindfulness week.

Year 5 enjoyed learning about the Palm House and creating wonderful bird houses.

A visit from Acorn Farm!

Young voices

Some of the members of the choir went to sing with 8000 other children at the AO arena in Manchester. Although it was a long day we all had a fabulous time.

Catholic Social Teaching

We had a visit from Jackie form the CAFOD education team, she introduced us to the animals that represent each of the Catholic Social Teaching values.

Spring flower art in Reception

Looking for signs of Spring around our school

In Reception class we went on a Spring walk and used our senses to investigate signs of Spring around us.

Meet a Judge visit

Representatives from our School Council, Rights Respecting Schools team and our House/Vice captains attended a trip to the Liverpool Civil and Family Court where they got the opportunity to interview 2 working judges and take part in a mock trial.

Mothers day cards and cakes in Reception class

We made some beautiful cards and chocolate strawberry crispy cakes to take home for our Mummy’s.

Spreading positive messages throughout school

Following our Mental Health Week, our School Council decided to spread some positive messages throughout the school. These can be read on a daily basis by children, staff and visitors to give them a positive boost to their day.

Practising our bonds to 10 in Reception

Fair Trade fortnight

We have been learning about the importance of giving farmers a fair price for their produce, such as coffee, cocoa and bananas. The fair trade symbol lets us know that farmers have been given a fair price, look for this symbol when shopping. Catholic Social Teaching about Solidarity teaches us that by using these products we are standing together as one with our global family.

At the end of our Fair trade fortnight, we had a raffle to win a hamper filled with Frair Trade goodies. As you can see the children were very pleased with their prizes.

Vegetable taste testing in Reception, inspired by this week’s focus book ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’

Eco council visit to the ‘Eco Centre’ in Southport to take part in the ‘Clean Air Crew’ initiative.

Celebrating Earth day in Reception class

Year 5 led a wonderful Earth Day assembly. The children talked about the actions we can take to help God’s creation flourish.

Year 5 designed and created their own parachutes in preparation for their air resistance experiment.

Cash for kids walk in Year 3! Today we walked around our school perimeter three times and altogether walked a massive 20,000 steps! Well done Year 3 👏

Planting Seeds – observational enquiry

Year 5 carried out an air resistance investigation using self- made parachutes. Back to the drawing board.

Cash for kids walk. We’ll done everyone.

Stop Plastic Pollution! Persuasive letters to the PM

Designing a toy with wheels

Year 6 mindfulness

Y6 have been fantastic during SATs week! They have worked and revised so hard! They even used their downtime to work together to create this beautiful owl 🦉

Cash 4 kids

Year 4 took part in a sponsored walk to raise money for our local charity ‘Cash 4 kids’ who help children in our local area. We’ll done Year 4

Changing Sound

Year 4 investigated how sound was made using tuning forks, water elastic bands and rice on a drum! They discovered that sound is caused by an object vibrating.

Sharing our character descriptions

Y6 celebrations

Thank you to the Frontline staff today who came into school with treats, games and prizes to congratulate Y6 for working hard in their SATs tests this week.

Painting in the style of John Culshaw

Y6 studied the proportions of their faces before drawing their self portraits. They then painted them in monochrome taking inspiration from John Culshaw.

Year 3 have been designing and creating money boxes in DT. We have had so much fun planning, designing and learning the process to lead up to finally making our final product! We finished with evaluating our product.

Observational Enquiry

Today we checked how our sunflowers have grown (or not!) We discussed how the amount of water we gave the plants effected their growth.

Talking to Downing Street!

Year 2 are very excited to have had a response from 10 Downing Street following our persuasive letters about stopping plastic pollution.

Evaluating our final pieces

Y6 held a class gallery today. They really enjoyed being art critics and left some fantastic feedback for their friends.

Painting in the style of Liverpool artists

Y6 have been analysing the work of Frank Green and John Culshaw. They then chose an artist to focus on and created their own painting.

The invention of the World Wide Web!

Year 6 have been learning all about the networks that link computers and devices together. Yesterday we went on a technician walk to audit the computing devices in our school. Today we have been researching Tim Berners-Lee.

UK Parliament Week

This week, Y6 have created manifestos and voted in a polling booth for the next Y6 prime minister.

Weather painting

In year 1 we created pieces of artwork in the style of David Hockney.

Health and fitness week

Year 4 began the day with walking a mile around the school. It set us up well for the beginning of our Health and fitness week.

Fruit tasting in nursery

Nursery class enjoyed tasting lots of delicious fruits this morning including strawberries, grapes, apples and blueberries. The most popular fruit in nursery is strawberries! Yum yum!

Health and fitness week

Nursery and Reception had lots of fun taking part in the daily mile. We completed three laps of jogging, walking and jumping. It was tiring but very fun. We are looking forward to doing it all again tomorrow!

Supermover spelling

As part of our daily spelling lesson, we use “Supermovers”. It’s a fun way to learn spelling rules and exercise at the same time. Year 4 love it!

Parts of a flower

What do we want?… safer roads… when do we want it?… NOW!

Y6 made lots of noise on their Brake walk to raise awareness of road safety issues in our local area.

Fruit kebabs

In year 1 for health and fitness week we made delicious fruit kebabs.

Fruit smoothie

Year 2 made healthy fruit smoothies for health and fitness week.

Daily mile

Y6 have taken part in a daily mile every day this week. Well done!

Reinforcing our frame structures

Y6 have been practising making frame structures. They reinforced them using different materials. We are excited to make our kite frames next week!

Making healthy snacks

Y6 have tried houmous this week. They then made their own flavoured houmous.

Forest School

Delicious dips

As part of Health and Fitness week Year 4 created their own flavour of humous by adding different ingredients. They chopped a variety of vegetables and used them for dipping. Not a dish was .left!

Making sense of money

Year 4 had a visit from My bnk today showing us different bank accounts and what to use to buy goods. Are you a spender or a saver?

Rock Kidz on tour!

Year 3 had a visit from My Bnk today showing us lots of different ways to be able to save money, different money habits and the bank accounts that are available to us. We now have lots of different top tips to take away with us!

Forest school- Year 3

Gulliver’s World

Y6 had a wonderful day in the sunshine!

Eid celebrations

We had a lovely day in Y6 celebrating Eid with our friends.

Gullivers World 2024

Road Safety Walk

As part of our Whole School Road Safety Week, each class went on a Road Safety Walk around our local area to raise awareness in our community and share some important road safety messages.

To raise awareness of Road Safety during our Whole School Road Safety Week, each class took part in a walk in our local area to highlight some important safety messages to our local community.

Health and fitness week.

Year 5 made a healthy Greek dip as part of learning about healthy eating

Health and fitness week

Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed playing a competitive game of rounder.

Art

Year 5 experimented with different ways to make Greek comedy and tragedy theatre masks.

Safe places to walk and cross

Year 5 took part in a walk through the local community asking for safer places to cross and walk.

Rock Kidz Day

We invited the wonderful Rock Kidz into school for a fun filled PSHE day to let our hair down, get our rock gear on and focus on our mental health. This year’s focus was Perseverance and Resilience. We all had a ball whilst remembering to always keep in mind today’s key phrase… ‘YOU’RE AWESOME SO BE AWESOME!’

We invited the wonderful Rock Kidz into school for a fun filled PSHE day to let our hair down, get our rock gear on and focus on our mental health. This year’s focus was Perseverance and Resilience. We all had a ball whilst remembering to always keep in mind, today’s key phrase… ‘YOU’RE AWSOME SO BE AWSOME!’

Parliament week

Year 5 carried out a parliamentary style debate on whether school uniform should be phased out. A number of children changed their minds and went against the party whip. Keeping school uniform won the vote. Democracy in action.

Science

As part our our forces topic,year 5 created parachutes and carried out an investigation into how air resistance affects falling objects.

Talented artist

One of our fantastic year 5 children with his brilliant drawing of the Liverpool skyline.

DT

Year 5 enjoyed planning and creating different types of bread,importantly they were able to eat it afterwards.

DT

Year 5 resident baker. Fantastic effort. Paul Hollywood she’s after your job.

Cricket club

Year 5 and 6 showed fantastic cricket skills during cricket club sessions. We have really talented young people at our school.

World Book Day

Year 5 spend the day creating their own comic books with fantastic storylines and illustrations. We have lots of future Stan Lees in our midst.

Art

Year 5 created wonderful layered leaves using different materials.

Colomendy!

We had a brilliant time in Colomendy! We will share more pictures in our leaver’s assembly next week.

Music Concert

Today Year 3 and 4 took part in a music concert, they showed their talents playing the ukele and the trumpets.

Plants – outdoor learning

collective worship circle time

whole school art display

Forest school art

Forest school

Sefton Park Palm House visit

Year 5 had a wonderful morning at the Palm House. They took part in art and craft activities. They also learnt about the history of the beautiful structure and about some of the fabulous plants which can be found there.

Sefton Park Palm House

Y6 had a fantastic morning at the Palm House learning all about the plants and history of this magnificent glass house.

Making healthy fruit kebabs in Reception

Creative/Imaginative play in Reception

As part of our Big Wide World topic we worked together to create our own sailing boat. We can’t wait to use it to travel around the world. Land Ahoy!!

Forest Friends

Sports afternoon!

Year 3 took part in three different races today, running, egg and spoon and finally a sack race! We had so much fun, well done everybody!

A virtual tour of Paris

As part of our geography about a locality study within Europe, year 4 took a virtual tour of Paris, using an on-line digital map. ‘We ‘visited’ all the major tourist attractions and worked out the best route to match our itinerary.

Sports day!

At long last the weather held out and we had our school sports day. The children took part in running race, egg and spoon race and a sack race. They all had a fabulous time, with the parents cheering them on all the way. Photographs courtsey of 2 of our Year 4 pupils. The next David Bailey.

Sports day

Year 5 enjoyed taking part in sports day. Lots of effort from everybody involved, particularly Mrs Jones.

Art

Year 5 had a wonderful afternoon creating Ancient Greek comedy and tragedy masks. The children are extremely creative and they really enjoy expressing themselves through art.

Food For Thought

Year 4 enjoyed a session with Food for Thought. They made vegetable stir fry with noodles, chopping, cooking, mixing and of course eating their incredible dishes. They really enjoyed learning about how to cook safely and how to make a balanced dish

Home made digestive system

year 4 used a variety of readily available resources to create a simulation of what happens in the digestive system. It was very messy!

Our brilliant box kites!

Today we showed our kites to Reception and flew them at the back of school. It wasn’t very windy but we still managed to get some lift in them!

Year 3 Music.

Year 3 have ensured note C and D are secure when playing their trumpets.

The leaver’s hoodies have arrived!!!

Ball in the Hall

Pre Loved Uniform Sale

This week the School Council and Eco Council worked together to plan and deliver a pre loved uniform sale. It was a great success and very well supported by our school community, raising much needed funds which will allow us to continue our projects next school year. Thank you to everyone who supported us!

Colour run!

We all took part in a colour run to raise money for CAFOD. We had so much fun!

We invited our families to watch our end of year musical showcase! We sang a selection of songs we have learnt accompanied with percussion instruments.

Scrumptious Smoothies

History

Year 5 enjoyed researching into the achievements of the Ancient Greeks and how their legacy is a part of our daily lives.

Shapes

Year 5 carried out a number of triangle investigations. There was a prize for the winning team.

Reception camping trip to the forest!

We had such a fun morning having a full camping experience in the forest. We sang songs and toasted marshmallows by the fire, built dens, enjoyed camping themed stories in the barn and even tested out the sleeping bags!

3D shapes

Year 5 created different 3D shapes from cubes to hexagon prisms and cones. Great effort from all the children.

Busy First Week

Year 4 have had a busy first week, we developed our own class charter, we picked articles from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child that we thought we needed in our class. We created pictures of a famous Liverpool landmark using a variety of techniques (can you guess where it is?), consolidated our knowledge of 4-digit numbers using manipulatives, learned what partitive nouns are and found out that ‘Being different is the best thing ever!’ What a week!

Following a picture map

Today we followed a picture map around our school grounds to find the treasure.

Sorting objects by their properties

NSPCC Workshop

Year 3 Art

In art this week we have been looking at the artist Sarah Sedwick. We have collected different fruit and cutlery to make a similar piece of still art work.

Self portraits

Today we used mirrors to look at our facial features and create our own self portraits.

Art work inspired by God’s gifts